39.2% ▲ +91.4%
Lower than 56% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 39.2%
Share of people reporting no religion (incl. secular and other spiritual beliefs).
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Religion in Inner Regional Australia
What people believe — religious affiliation and those with no religion.
Diverse faith and belief systems shape daily life in Inner Regional Australia, where nearly 40% of people now identify as having no religion. This reflects a significant shift in the local spiritual landscape, as the number of people without a religious affiliation has climbed steadily over the last decade.
Religious affiliation
The mix of religions, and people with no religion.
Christianity remains the most common faith at 49.5%, while 39.2% of people report no religion—a figure that rose 19 percentage points since 2011 and is about the same as the national average.
Religious affiliation
View on map →In Inner Regional Australia, the largest group is Christianity at 49%, followed by No religion (39%) and Not stated (9%).
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- Catholic 17.8%
- Anglican 13.7%
- Other Christian 7.5%
- Uniting Church 4.9%
- Presbyterian & Reformed 2.5%
- Baptist 1.7%
- Pentecostal 1.2%
- Orthodox 0.2%
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- No religion 38.8%
- Secular beliefs 0.2%
- Other spiritual beliefs 0.2%
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- Other religious groups 0.6%
- Sikhism 0.2%
- Aboriginal traditional 0.0%
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Religion in Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA31/inner-regional-australia/topic/religion